Anyway, if his appearance plays out the way I think it might, they could have filmed him separately from principal photography and just about anyplace they could set up a green screen. Or just manipulate old footage of him ala Marlon Brando in Superman Returns?

Yes very true, we’ll need to keep an eye out for future press info to confirm thats the case.

Very interesting interview with Ian McDiarmid it seems that Emperor Palpatine might not actually be in The Rise Of Skywalker at all as Ian states in the video above the laugh at the end of the trailer was from stock and he didnt know about it either until we did. Also he seems way to somber to be an active player in the new film when talking.

Plus check out what he says at the end of the interview about the word tease as if to say dont get our hopes up with fan theories.

The special FX of the green screen has taken that movie spark away from movies so hearing some the FX guys working in there garage creating real models equipment for this is what A New Hope was made of. Bringing back the art and not a cold product.

Someone uploaded footage of the sizzle reel on YouTube. Not going to post a link, and it probably won’t be up for long, but it does look amazing. Has a very Rogue One feel to it, but with a clear Sergio Leone Western feel added to it as well. Hopefully they’ll officially upload the video soon, but I’m guessing they’re waiting for the Ep. IX hype to die down a bit first.

Also dont forget the leaked trailer from Jeremy at Geeks + Gamers aka The StarWars Toxic fandom who looked like a ghost after when he relised hes going to get into serious trouble for streaming it 😆

How’d he get a hold of a trailer? I though the conventions only showed sizzle reels, set photos, etc.

Also, you’d think a relatively well know YouTuber would have more common sense than that.

EDIT: Just looked up his YT page. Its so strange to me when someone who’s so negative towards the new SW still bothers to spend time and money going to Star Wars Celebration and even uploads footage from all the panels (incl. Ep.IX).

Hes since removed the 30min video of the trailer and him looking a little worried but I got a sneaky suspicion it was downloaded before being removed and might show up on the spleen 😉

Some of his highlights on his channel from the celebration are Kathleen Kennedy Suddenly has a plan & also Interview - Trump Supporter at StarWars Celebration. Seriously the guys a joke.

Someone uploaded footage of the sizzle reel on YouTube. Not going to post a link, and it probably won’t be up for long, but it does look amazing. Has a very Rogue One feel to it, but with a clear Sergio Leone Western feel added to it as well. Hopefully they’ll officially upload the video soon, but I’m guessing they’re waiting for the Ep. IX hype to die down a bit first.

Also dont forget the leaked trailer from Jeremy at Geeks + Gamers aka The StarWars Toxic fandom who looked like a ghost after when he relised hes going to get into serious trouble for streaming it 😆

Hi NFBisms,
Just wondering if youve seen Stankpacs Revenge of the Sith Special Edition edit as it shares alot of the same ideas your mentioned, a wiser Anakin, less slap stick humour ect. it might give you more ideas to work with. 😁👍

Review:
When it comes to watching Episode I I’ve personally avoided watching it for so long I barely remember the film and as such also avoided the many fanedits over the years for fears of bring back those bad memories. As its been so long I finally gave in and watched Anjohans edit and I’m glad I did.

What drew me to this edit was the reimagining of the narrative and using other source material to expand on much needed character development while omitting offensive scenes throughout some examples SPOILERS like expanding on the trade federations backstory to strengthen their motives, allowing the villains more screen time to give a sense of peril and also better introducing Dookus character to the storyline and reintroducing Jar-Jars as a member of the Jedis original crew sent from corusent. Is this film perfect? no. can the few issues be fixed? yes, quite easily.

The main issues are really only technical ones like Mauls sabre changing orange in some scenes, although you get the narrotive point better with Dookus hologram throughout it still looks out of place in some scenes eg Jedi council scene @ 00:56:23 and some clunky subtitles one example of this is during the original films opening scenes on the trade federations ship which is now shown later in the film when Qui-Gons using his sabre to melt the bridges blast doors these are the new lines:

Also something out of place is the heavy metal rift first heard at Tattooine when entering Mos Espa and the Maul scenes which brings you out of the Starwars film. Lastly Qui-Gons close up death scene @ 01:27:56 repeats itself but not sure if its intentional though.

Overall a very good edit from Anjohan and a definite improvement over the theatrical, looking forward to the improvements version 2 of the Ancient Lore will bring.

Yes, since it’s lossless. The DTS track had to be encoded to that spec. For viewing/listening, the DTS should be good enough for anyone. But if an editor wants to use part of my project’s audio, the lossless file is there as a source equal to what was in my NLE.

Agree has over powered force abilities but its from dark side perspective so gets away with it and the story is so very good right till and including the end, just ignore the so called sequel with the way the original ended the sequel was poorly written and an obvious cash grab.

So, there’s failure from a certain point of view, but from many others she is unrealistically successful (or lucky) given her lack of experience, and naive nature, and she achieves many of these successes with powers that she just almost instantly recieved from on high, and thus hasn’t really earned.

I agree with this.
But I don’t think it would play well if we saw Rey getting beat up like other action heroes tend to be.
Had Rey been rescued by Poe Dameron in a Hoth-like situation, people would accuse the filmmakers of resorting to the damsel-in-destress trope.
If Snoke had been hurling giant pieces of machinery at Rey’s back and head, she gets beaten and bruised with a black eye (ala Luke at the end of ESB) AND she loses the fight, it looks like a display of violence against women, and accusations of misogyny are made.

I don’t think she needed to be rescued, but I also think she might have a little bit more trouble escaping, maybe get a few scratches, and seem a little less jubilant in the battle of Crait. As it is the revelations and her failure don’t really seem to affect her much. Given what happened to her, and the Resistance you would expect a bit more somber and reflective tone, rather than smiles and congratulations.

And in A New Hope, Luke’s very old friend Biggs is blown up and other than a moment of sadness that he quickly shrugs off to get the job done, there is nothing. Of 30 ships only 3 came back and everyone is laughing and jubilant. Why? because even when there is a cause to be sad, we can be happy becomes something overrides the sadness. And in TLJ, after the survivor’s are rescued, Rey is somber when she talks to Leia.

Very good point yotsuya, I dont think I have an issue with TLJs ending particularly as you said when comparing to ANH only issue is like most said no time for them to stop and reflect.

maybe they could’ve shown Rey take a little more effort to do certain things. But luckily that’s what things like fan edits are for!

Definitely prefer fanedits over theatricals.

This is another reason why I think it is good to trim the Rather scene and cut Rey saving Finn from one of them.

DigModiFicaTions edit does it best when handling the Rathtar scene by keeping it short as soon as Han punches the gangster goon he cuts then to Han trying to open door to hanger by using Chewies bowcaster thus removing most of the CGI antics.

I personally kinda wish Rey would’ve stretched out both of her hands when lifting up all of those rocks at the end of TLJ, which I know is a little trivial but it does show a little extra effort. I think a skilled editor could actually do this. Minor, but something I’d like to see.

Sounds good

This is another reason why I would keep the Caretakers. One trait of a Mary Sue is that everyone loves her, and the Caretakers clearly aren’t too fond of Rey. Haha.

Thats one reason but ultimately keeping the caretakers in lets us have in my opinion the most important deleted scene which is Lukes third lession and how the Jedis dogmatic views have become dated.

It best explains this mystical energy field recognised by an old religious group known as the Jedi and a power crazed cult called the Sith as the force. Luke while on his own recognises what he was told to be called the force is neither the Jedis nor the Siths and the slave kid at the end using his untrained talent to pick up his broom reminds us that the galaxy far, far away is a big place with alot of stories to tell outside of the Jedi/Sith.

When it comes to editing I try to approach things in a “less is more” kind of way. Like, what would be the smallest changes that would have the biggest impact on your perception of your character, in your opinion?

This video best explains the Mary Sue issue not just for StarWars but for other future films.

So I’ve just got around to watching the video and I could not agree more with the entirety of it. However Darth Muffy, though you obviously agreed with the video I think the title of this thread and claiming it to best explain the Mary Sue issue is a misnomer and does a disservice to the video and Thor himself in creating prejudice against him and the video before it is even viewed as people opposed to the term are already in a mindset out of the gate to discount what is being said and view it in a harsh light before even hearing what Thor has to say and people who think Rey is a Mary Sue enter looking for validation and even circle jerking for some who just want to throw around “Rey is such a Mary Sue!” in the comments and have it repeated back to them.

I understand the term Mary Sue means different things to different people and can be wrongly used when validating the new films but for this thread if you could please watch the video like Valheru now has explaining that term used within this particular discussion as I except Rey to be a Mary Sue within the context outlined in the video but I personally still also very much like Force Awakens & Last Jedi as well.